Vintage Hair

Keeping Vintage Hair Easy and Simple with a Beret

June 7, 2011

Berets are an easy hair accessory to go vintage. The simple hat style of the beret has been around for ages and so can fit with most decade looks you may be

Hair Curlers or Pin curls in public? Yes it is fine. That’s the end of it.

January 18, 2011

I just have to say YES…it is fine to wear your hair curlers or pin curls in public. Setting your curls is no small matter. It requires patience and planning.

Hair Setting and Wet Set Curling… Why it works

January 10, 2011

Sorry to geek out on you, but I believe it is important to understand the science of things in order to create proper art. Painters need to fully understand the

The Faux Vintage Poodle Hairstyle… When your hair isn’t long enough

November 24, 2010

Piles of curl on the forehead were very popular in the 1940’s like below on Betty Grable and I think this could be a brilliant fake with some brushing, teasing

Simple Vintage Bridal Hairstyle for Medium Length Hair

September 24, 2010

Wedding season is starting to wind down and the rest of the weddings I am working on for the next month or so are for other stylist friends in which

Crazy and scary beauty tips from the 1920s. Are you people mad?!

September 19, 2010

We are wusses compared to women back in the day. We worry that ratting our hair too much with damage it, when these ladies were burning it to make it

1939 Waving and Curling Theory Part 3

September 14, 2010

Paper Curling 1. How is a paper curl given? The hair is divided into small strands which are formed into flat ringlets held in place by means of a folded

More 1939 theory and practice of beauty culture Part 2

September 5, 2010

And now class, let’s move on to the next installment of the Manual on Theory and Practice of Beauty Culture. My copy apparently belonged to a Doris Haworth who went

The (beautiful) Women Bumper Bang and Curls Vintage Hairstyle Tutorial

August 20, 2010

I never saw the 2008 version…probably won’t ever, but I ADORE the 1939 original version of The Women. There is not one man in the entire 1930s movie. Go Girls!